Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-08

"lsh h} adding an equal amount OF
mashed potato. OF OF cracker or bread
crumbs, making ia small cakes and
frying brown. Moiaten them in mixing
with u little OF the soup,
To clean gold jewelry with the stones
in. wash in warm suds made of fine
soap. with ten or fifteen drops of sal
volatile in Il. This makes %jewelry very
brilliant.
10 prepare an egg for an invalid
beat until very light; add seasoning to
taste and then steam till thoroughly
warmed through. The most delicate
stomach will be able TO digest it
10 sweeten rancid lard, put your
lard in the stove an. let it melt. Pcsl
five or six potatoes. cut them up ~
the lard and boil them until they are
tender. Then strain your lard and you
will find it improved.
For corn %fri;tcrs. CRATE twelve ears
of corn, scraping the ears with u silver
knife 50 that all the milk NAV be re-
moved. Mix the pulp with three eggs
and one teacupful OF flour. Fry in hot
d~rippingo.
The French method of administering
castor oil is to pour the oil into n pan
over a moderate fire. break an o. into
il and stir it well; when it is done flavor
with Il little salt or sugar or currart
jelly.
The true way TO cook a beet is to
bake, not boil it,. Thus treated, and
sliced either IN viaegar or in butter, it
is exceedingly palatahlc and nutritious.
Boiling extracts the most valuable part
Of this vegetable. ~
a very simple and nourishing dish IS
made OF two pounds of lean round
steak, finely minced, and simmered for
three houts III one quart OF water. salt
ell 10 taste. Serve with boiled rice. If
liked. curry powder may be added to
the gravy.
For %cocoanut pudding, boil one pint
of milk with one teaspoontul OF butter
in it,. Pour il over u very small grated
cocoanut. When cool add three eggs,
beaten, with half Il cup of sugar and IL
pinch OF salt. Have a deep dish lined
with nice pastry, pour the mixture into
il and bake it until il is set.
For fried squash. peel and slice II
young squash in pieces two or three
inches square and half an inch thick.
Let il stand ior an hour in a deep
earthen dish with u slight sprinkling OF
salt between each layer. Then wipe
the slices, pepper Thorn. roll them in
flour and fry Them brown in smoking
hot fat.
Hardy bulbs should be transplantcd
when necessary in the fall, and the
earlier Ia the fall the better. They will
10 pretty well up 10 frost. Al this APP
plies to Dutch bulbs as we'll rs others.
Bulbs like to be rather deep. and TO
have the soil rather rich and rather
damp. It Is the low reclaimed mud of
Holland which helps their bulbs quite
as much as the Dutch gardeners.
Prof. Arnold, who has been inspect
ing the English modes of agriculture,
states that the English dairymen are
far in advance of the American. They
use greater skill in feeding and hus-
band the manure better, as well as
using economy in every department.
He state~ that if our dairymen would
economizc US well they would make
their farms fertile and become
wealthier.
A writer in the London Gardeners
Chronicle has bad excellent success in
the cultivation of Chrysanthemums by
the nse twice a week Of a leaspoonful
Of sulph2te Of ammonia in Il gallon of
water. The effect was marked both in
leaf and lower, even contrastcd with
plants regularly watcrcd with liquid
COW maaure. The system will apply
to plants generally. and will be worth
attention in winter window gardens.
The exterior characteristics of %
good heavy draft horse are a large,
deep chest, straight shoulders, a little
Inclined, tleshy, a thick body, yet not
too much belly, straight loin, the hind
quarters a little depressed, thick
through the thighs and u long perrin
cum. The horse that has Il long per-
ineum prolonged down from the anus,
and thick and short muscles Of the
thighs, is very strong and ADD
draft animal.
Too much cg' har!y be said il
| praise Of onions to: fowls. Tacy are u
preventive and IA remedy Cor many Of
the diseases to which domestic fowls
arc liable. For gapes, onions are the
best things that can he fed.
In potting %gcraniums IN the fall use
a soil containing II very little manure,
but u liberal quantity Of sand if the soil
il a rather stiff loan; OF the contrary.
the soil in the spring should be rich
and contain little or no sand.
70 show the difference between the
good and inferior it NAY be stated
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